2023 · comedy · action · drama
Polite Society
Directed by Nida Manzoor1h 44m2023
Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
Our read: Polite Society (2023) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · action · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- intimate
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